C H Friend High School - Chit Chat Yearbook (South Boston, VA)

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Class History As is natural, now that we have reached the goal of all high school students, we look back over the history of our class. Our high school days started with about thirty in the class. Since that time we have lost some valuable members - Sam McCracken, Tom Lowery, Wayland owen, Katherine Terry, and Damron Owen. One of our greatest losses was Laura Waskey, a friend to all, a star basketball player, a girl who had won a permanent place in the hearts of all her classmates, a friend we will never forget. In her honor, our class presented to- the Athletic Association a plaqpe which is awarded each year to the winner of the girls' basketball tournament. These members left vacancies which have been filled by new members-Arthur Crute, Robert Walton, Dorothy Maynard, Dalton Roberson, Pearle Goodman, O. T. Grimes, and Shirley Owen. , Our class has been particularly outstanding in athletics all through our school life. Helen Hope Walker and Mary Stewart were the first, freshmen everto make varsity basketball at the high school, Becky Williams made it her second yearg, and Lamb Hodges has also added to the team. They have worked so faithfully that by their presence on the team and their perfect teamwork they have .made C. H. Friend High School famous throughout the state for girls' basketball. The boys too in basket- ball and also in football have won glory for the class. Among these are Tom King, Rawley Fuller, Allen Fuller, Robert Wal-ton, T. J. Glascock, Wiley Umstead, Charlie Smith, John Hubbard, Mervin Matze, and Arthur Crute. We are proud to have had a considerable number of our class elected to mem- bership in the National Honorary Beta Club, or what is better known in the high school as the Honor Society. These members, elected in their junior year because of high scholastic rating and school citizenship, are Oza Ridgeway, Lamb Hodges, Ver- nessa Henderson, Margaret James, Sam White, A. D. Dodd, Becky Williams, Tom King, Jane Wilkinson, Mary Godbold, and Shirley Owen. In all other fields of activity as well, the various members of our class have been outstanding. Lamb Hodges, Dorothy Maynard, and Shirley Owen entered the American Magazine contest open to all high school students this year. They submitted essays and short stories written in connection with Miss I-Ioward's senior English class, and all the Seniors are entertaining high hopes of their winning the thousand dollar prizes. Dorothy Maynard has been particularly outstanding in the field of jour- nalism, ancl through the Reporters' Club has won several prizes for her numerous ar- ticles published in the South Boston News and the Record-Advertiser. On the laurels of Oza Ridgeway and Allen Fuller have rested the dramatic reputation of the class. These two outstanding members of the Dramatic Club have taken part in numerous plays, and last year were in the cast of the play which went to Farmville State Teachers' College for the Southside Virginia Play Tournament. Our class has always had the reputation of putting off until the last minute, never worrying, and then working in a frenzy to get things done. The amazing part about it is that we generally do manage to accomplish what we set out to do. It was in our junior year that we really discovered our own possibilities as a class. When the time rolled around for our Junior-Senior banquet and dance, we were faced with the dilemma of no auditorium for the festivities, but we were one and all determined

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Class Poem Passing through rapid and happy years, We have all become true comrades, Having such fun and good times, Puzzling o'er long tests and hard exams, Worrying, teasing, and laughing-till Suddenly we've come, sad but glad, To our commencement timeg Leaving forever our schooldays and play To fulfill the dreams We've dreamed. But separated by years and space, We'll recall with pleasure Happy, hazy memories Of the past delights and joys of school days -Lamb Hodges.

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w l that this Junior-Senior banquet should be as successful as any in the past. The senior class colors of the class of '37 gave us considerable trouble too in fashioning attractive favors for the banquet. If you don't believe it, try writing on maroon paper with gold ink, and see what happens! But by putting all of our heads together and laboring diligently Qwe say it with pardonable pridej, we were able to make OUR Junior- Senior banquet the most successful in the history of the high school. As I recall our high school life, I must mention a few individuals. We all re- member Becky, the tomboy, and how she suddenly grew up overnight into a very attractive young Rebecca. We remember our quaint, old-fashioned lady, Lamb. We can hardly realize that this modern sophisticated young lady of today is that same little girl. We can remember the time when T. J. and Wiley would blush to speak to a girl, and now-they are our star heartbreakers. We remember when Allen Fuller was our Little Lord Fauntleroyf' and now he's our Robert Taylor. We are proud to recall that one member of our class has really cared what became of the class, a member who has really Worried about us-Oza. Maybe she did carry it a little too far sometimes, but we all admit there is always a certain amount of worrying to be done. We are certainly glad that in our senior year we improved so much that we banished some of OZa's worries. All the members of our class have contributed toward making our high school career a success. The fire in the middle of our junior year brought great changes to us, and cut short a number of our cherished dreams and activities. But through the hearty cooperation of the school board, the faculties of the two schools, and of every individual student in school, we have been able to ca1'ry on in spite of all handicaps. Perhaps the most important and useful thing we learned to do in our high school life was to cooperate with each other. All of our book-larnin' can never make up for that most necessary attribute which high school has taught us-working together. It is for this that we have striven, and by this that we have succeeded in our tasks. g f SHIRLEY OWEN.